Elie Klee graduated in 2020 with an LL.M. from the University of Ottawa and a Master degree from Aix-Marseille University (France), specializing in public international law. Since 2022, he has been a Ph.D. student in an international co-tutelle program at the Universities of Ottawa and Aix-Marseille under the supervision of Professors Sandrine Maljean-Dubois, Christel Cournil and Thomas Burelli.
His research focuses on the disappearance of states under international law as a result of climate change. His work analyzes the way in which international law can apprehend the disappearance of a State as a result of rising sea levels and temperatures, and the evolutions of the legal framework surrounding this phenomenon. He is interested in the consequences that the loss by a state of its constituent elements entails, both in terms of the status of the state that has disappeared, or is doomed to disappear, and for the rights of its population and the sovereign prerogatives of the state.
Between 2019 and 2022, he worked as a parliamentary assistant to a French deputy and as a teaching assistant in constitutional law at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia (France). He has also been coordinator of the Center for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability (CELGS) of the Universigty of Ottawa since October 2022.